Democrats flipped four House seats in Orange County during the midterms. (ROBYN BECK / AFP/Getty Images)

Orange is the new blue.

California’s Orange County, which has traditionally, historically voted Republican, now belongs to the Democrats, with all seven congressional seats belonging to the DNC after a four-seat sweep in the midterms.

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The 39th congressional district was the last to fall when Democrat Gil Cisneros defeated Young Kim Saturday night in the race to replace GOP Rep. Ed Royce. Democrats also flipped seats previously held by Dana Rohrabacher, Darrell Issa and Katie Porter.

Orange County, considered the birthplace of modern conservatism, raised Richard Nixon from Hollywood darling to President and Ronald Reagan carried the county with more than 70% of the vote in 1984.

But the gap has narrowed recently and, in 2016, Hillary Clinton was the first Democrat to win the county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than one-third of the Orange County population is Hispanic or Latino and experts have pointed to President Trump’s rhetoric for the drastic push to the left.

Democrats now hold at least 44 of California’s 53 seats — Rep. David Valadao in Central Valley is still awaiting a final tally of mail-in votes in his race against Democrat TJ Cox — and, nationwide, stand to pick up between 35 to 40 House seats. That would be the most a Republican President has lost during the midterms since Gerald Ford lost 48 seats after Watergate, according to Vox.

President Trump has been focusing elsewhere.

“People are not being told that the Republican Party is on track to pick up two seats in the U.S. Senate, and epic victory: 53 to 47,” he tweeted Friday. “The Fake News Media only wants to speak of the House, where the Midterm results were better than other sitting Presidents.”